· Public charity
Utah Bar Foundation
1) promote legal education and increase the knowledge and awareness of the law in the community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $343k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+6 grants · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEGAL AID SOCIETY | $446,867 |
| DISABILITY LAW CENTER | $390,000 |
| CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES | $318,000 |
| TIMPANOGOS LEGAL CENTER | $315,642 |
| AND JUSTICE FOR ALL | $310,004 |
| CLEAN SLATE UTAH | $253,023 |
| UTAH LEGAL SERVICES | $166,406 |
| ROCKY MTN INNOCENCE | $165,000 |
| UTAH LAW RELATED EDUCATION | $152,210 |
| WASATCH IMMIGRATION PROJECT | $150,000 |
| UTAH DISPUTE RESOLUTION | $123,400 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $110,900 |
| SALT LAKE JUSTICE COURT | $100,000 |
| UTAH COMMUNITY ACTION | $80,900 |
| MOUNTAIN MEDIATION CENTER | $79,888 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $131k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $189k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- DLDISABILITY LAW CENTER8× · 2018–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +48%
- ULUTAH LEGAL SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +1%
- LALEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SALT LAKE9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +92%
Funded once
- UFUTAH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue -28%
- NLNONPROFIT LEGAL SERVICES OF UTAHone grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue 0%
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue +19%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provides free legal representation for victims of crime including providing information, support, and advocacy for victims as they go through the criminal justice process.
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To serve The People by honoring Native cultures, strengthening health and wellness programs, and cultivating community. We envision all Native peoples living balanced, prosperous, and healthy lives in diverse communities for Seven…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Utah Legal Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 42 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds DISABILITY LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds UTAH LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SALT LAKE ↗
- Who funds AND JUSTICE FOR ALL ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds LAW RELATED EDUCATION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds TIMPANOGOS LEGAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Utah State Bar ↗
- Who funds Clean Slate Utah ↗
- Who funds UTAH DISPUTE RESOLUTION ↗
- Who funds Peoples Legal Aid ↗
- Who funds SALT LAKE COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds LAW COLLEGE ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds Holy Cross Ministries of Utah ↗
- Who funds UTAH CENTER FOR LEGAL INCLUSION ↗
- Who funds UTAH DOMESTIC VIOLENCE LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN MEDIATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Wasatch Immigration Project ↗
- Who funds DNA PEOPLES LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Immigrant Legal Services ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH ↗
- Who funds NONPROFIT LEGAL SERVICES OF UTAH ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Comunidades Unidas ↗
- Who funds Centro Hispano ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE JUSTICE LEAGUE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · And Justice for All · Park City Community Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Florence J Gillmor Foundation · Utah's Promise · Ihc Health Services Inc · Utah State Bar
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Utah Bar Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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